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This book is carefully selected by the famous scholar Liu Wenfei from nearly a hundred academic lectures on Russian literature and culture given in universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad in the past ten years, and compiled and published. This book will maintain a certain "original nature" of the spoken language when it is being revised, so that readers may gain the same immersive feeling as the listeners. Speeches delivered abroad have been translated into Chinese. These lectures are divided into two parts, the first part is an introduction to Russian literature and culture, and the second part is a monograph on the author or work. The book is rich in content, taking into account literature, culture, and the history of exchanges between China and Russia. It covers a wide time span: vertically from the golden age starting with Pushkin in the 19th century, through the Silver Age in the early 20th century, to today's modern literature; horizontally, it includes Russian writers in Russia, exiled in Europe and the United States, and their literary and cultural activities in their places of residence. The author of this book is also a poet, and his language is characterized by high literary talent, freshness, liveliness, and high readability.

The book "Ten Moments in the Life of Dostoevsky" contains the author's fourteen essays related to Russian literature, including "Ten Moments in the Life of Dostoevsky", "In Search of Chekhov's Footsteps", "Tolstoy Through Time and Space", "Tsvetaeva's Prague", "Nabokov and the Butterfly", etc., Involving the life and creation of many classic Russian writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author uses good materials found in academic research and literary translation as the writing objects of prose essays, and uses a freer and more emotional style to discuss more academic topics, making this essay collection interesting, readable and informative, and bringing Chinese readers closer to Russian literature, Chinese literature and Russian literature. Fourteen essays have been published individually in well-known publications such as "People's Literature", "Yilin", and "Yangtze River Literature and Art".

"Reading and Being Read" is a new collection of academic essays written by Liu Wenfei, Yanjing Chair Professor of Humanities at Capital Normal University and an authoritative scholar of Russian literature, who interprets and comments on world literary classics. This book discusses eleven world literary masters and their representative works, including Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe, Hugo, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, Kawabata Yasunari, and Nabokov. Based on careful reading of classic texts and research and sorting out of the writer's life, the author extracts a focus in each article and analyzes and comments around it, or studies characters, or discusses literary attributes, or talks about serious topics such as thought and survival, or deconstructs classics from details such as architecture and color. The eleven themes are vivid, new, rich, and profound, opening and closing vertically and horizontally, creating a grand view. It is a feast for the minds of world literature lovers.